In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores the evolving nature of slavery – a virus that won’t go away.
The new slavery
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Underexposed
In Underexposed, Index reveals the hidden history of the 20th century, the first to be minutely and entirely documented by camera.
After the fall
Index looks at the state of the world 10 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and asks: Where is the peace dividend?
Tribes
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores the ruthless centre of colonial history, and celebrates the voices of the world’s tribes.
Big science
Index examines constraints on free expression in science and technology, and in doing so sheds new light on some of the most explosive issues of our time.
Word power
In celebration of the opening of the new library of Alexandria later this year, Index on Censorship magazine looks at the library as liberator.
Portugal: The last empire
Twenty-five years after the Carnation Revolution, Index looks at the legacy of “Lusophonia”, an archipelago of language that embraces Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and East Timor
Smashed hits
In this issue, Index explores the power of music, which has been feared by rulers and religion throughout the world. No more so than our own century.
The full cover up
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine looks at officialdom’s talk of greater transparency, accountability and freedom of information.
Gypsies: Life on the edge
Index looks at the situation of the Gypsies Europe’s largest minority from the UK to the Urals and at their remarkable literary and political renaissance.
A quarterly journal set up in 1972, Index on Censorship magazine has published oppressed writers and refused to be silenced across hundreds of issues.
The brainchild of the poet Stephen Spender, and translator Michael Scammell, the magazine’s very first issue included a never-before-published poem, written while serving a sentence in a labour camp, by the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who went on to win a Nobel prize later that year.
The magazine continued to be a thorn in the side of Soviet censors, but its scope was far wider. From the beginning, Index declared its mission to stand up for free expression as a fundamental human right for people everywhere – it was particularly vocal in its coverage of the oppressive military regimes of southern Europe and Latin America but was also clear that freedom of expression was not only a problem in faraway dictatorships. The winter 1979 issue, for example, reported on a controversy in the United States in which the Public Broadcasting Service had heavily edited a documentary about racism in Britain and then gone to court attempting to prevent screenings of the original version. Learn more.